Thanks Massimo. I also realized that they are being treated differently, when I re-looked at the source of rivet-ajax example.
This understanding (of .tcl & .rvt being same) was because of my hang-over from php which I've just started learning. Any reason why we have separated them as different (unlike php)? Best Regards, Nagu. On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Massimo Manghi <massimo.man...@unipr.it>wrote: > On 2012-07-22 16:55, Nagarajan Chinnasamy wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> First of all, Thank You for your efforts of supporting Tcl under >> Apache Server. This definitely eliminates the need for me to learn yet >> another language to port my applications to web. >> >> I just installed the latest version of Rivet (v2) on Debian 6 Squeeze >> and could successfully browse through the example .rvt pages found on >> Rivet Home Page. >> > > >> This is a question on the pages written with .tcl extension. My >> understanding was that the .tcl and .rvt extensions are mutually >> exchangeable. However, when I renamed a .rvt file to .tcl and >> invoked it from the browser, I get errors on the page. >> >> > No, it doesn't work like that. Templates (.rvt) go into a parsing stage > prior to being run within the ::request namespace, pure Tcl scripts (.tcl) > are simply evaluated at the global namespace. That also implies HTML code > has to be output explicitly using the 'puts' command. > > > > .tcl file content (.rvt renamed to .tcl): >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> >> <? set hello_message "Hello world" ?> >>> <html> >>> <head> >>> <title><? puts $hello_message ?></title> >>> </head> >>> <body><? >>> puts [html $hello_message pre b] >>> ?></body> >>> </html> >>> >> >> view-source output from the browser (chrome): >> ------------------------------**------------------------------**--- >> >> <PRE> >>> <HR>invalid command name "<?" >>> while executing >>> "<? set hello_message "Hello world" ?>"<HR> >>> <P><B>OUTPUT BUFFER:</B></P> >>> <? set hello_message "Hello world" ?> >>> <html> >>> <head> >>> <title><? puts $hello_message ?></title> >>> </head> >>> <body><? >>> puts [html $hello_message pre b] >>> ?></body> >>> </html> >>> </PRE> >>> >> >> > in fact, the script was evaluated as pure Tcl, therefore the interpreter > couldn't figure out what the "<?" was about > > > > Content of rivet.conf file placed in mods-enabled folder is: >> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >> ---------------- >> > > .rvt scripts are registered as different types of documents triggering the > code that invokes the parser over them, the point of having 2 types > registered was precisely that > > > > -- Massimo > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > rivet-dev-unsubscribe@tcl.**apache.org<rivet-dev-unsubscr...@tcl.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: rivet-dev-h...@tcl.apache.org > >
